Meath Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Meath Name Origin

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Origin of the Name Meath

The Meath family history was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. The name Meath in Ireland is often a form of the Gaelic name MacMath, the bearers of which name were a branch of the Scottish clan Matheson who have resided in Ulster Province since the seventeenth century when they arrived from England and Scotland as settlers. The variant MacMeath can be mostly found in County Monaghan. Other variants include MacMagh and MacMaugh. When Gaelic names were anglicized during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries they were often changed to Anglo equivalents that sounded most like their original Gaelic name. The variant MacMawe is from the Gaelic sept name MacMaighe, meaning 'son of Mathew' and was assumed by a family of Condon. Other bearers of this name may have taken their name from County Meath which is adjacent to County Dublin in Leinster Province.